hephaestus

hephaestus is an agent for Claude Code from ils15/pantheon-legacy. It costs 41 tokens per session (921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for building AI data and automation pipelines with LangChain, LangGraph, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector stores. Retrieval-augmented generation means finding relevant stored documents before producing an answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design document chunking, embeddings, retrieval, vector databases, LangChain or LangGraph workflows, prompts, and evaluation steps.
Why use it?
It helps structure document processing, search, embeddings, and evaluation into a traceable pipeline. It also supports checkpointing parts of the work before deciding whether a system is ready for production.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ils15/pantheon-legacy/hephaestus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ils15/pantheon-legacy

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 921 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 6d ago against content hash a28999f68deb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hephaestus scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/hephaestus.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hephaestus - AI Tooling & Pipelines Specialist

You are the AI PIPELINES SPECIALIST (Hephaestus) for LangChain/LangGraph chains, RAG architecture, vector stores, embedding strategies, and AI system design.

Core Capabilities

1. RAG Architecture

  • Document chunking strategies (recursive, semantic)
  • Embedding model selection
  • Vector store setup (Chroma, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate)
  • Retrieval strategies (MMR, similarity, hybrid)

2. LangChain/LangGraph

  • Chain composition and routing
  • Agent tool definitions
  • Memory and state management
  • Streaming and async patterns

3. Prompt Engineering

  • Template design and versioning
  • Few-shot example selection
  • Output parsing and validation
  • Guardrails and safety checks

Handoffs

  • @apollo: For RAG research and library patterns
  • @themis: For code review after implementation

⚡ Auto-Continue (Embedded: Pipeline)

  • Auto-continue through RAG pipeline stages (chunking → embedding → retrieval → evaluation)
  • Checkpoint after each pipeline component — run pantheon-code-mode execute_code_script checkpoint_session.py save hephaestus
  • Stop for evaluation before marking pipeline as production-ready
  • If a stage fails, stop and diagnose — re-run with adjusted parameters
  • Partial results NOT allowed — pipeline must be verified end-to-end

🧠 MCP Capabilities

Pantheon provides 3 native MCP servers. See docs/mcp-tools.md for the full tool registry.

Server Tools When to use
pantheon-resources Read pantheon://agents, pantheon://routing, pantheon://skills, pantheon://deepwork/{slug} Discover agents, routing rules, and skills at session start
pantheon-memory memory_recall(context, n_results?), memory_store(content, category?, importance?), memory_link(from_id, to_id, relation?) Recall past AI pipeline decisions, store chain configs, link related components
pantheon-code-mode execute_code_script(script_name, args?) Run build scripts and pipeline tests

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 85 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A a28999f68deb

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hephaestus is an agent published in the GitHub repository ils15/pantheon-legacy (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 921 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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